What is wrong with my computer?

Question

Here's what it's doing: My mouse cursor has a lag in it every couple of seconds or so, my music has a lag also (stopping then starting again), my internet is also running slower than usual. This has been happening for about 2 days. For the past 6 months or so, I've been downloading songs off limewire. I downloaded around 150 songs. I stopped and uninstalled limewire yesterday. I have norton antivirus and I ran a scan and it came back clean. There's still a slight lag in everything though. What could be wrong?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

ya ive had norton antivirus i think its a waste but wat the other guy said get spybot search and destroy and can detect many things like viruses,malware,spyware and other stuff and if u want to clean ur computer up to make it run faster then also download Ccleaner it scans for things to remove i have removed about 250mbs of stuff i dident need useing this and it helped speed my computer up so here are both the websites hope i helped

Answer 2

You might have some Spyware on your system causing it to "lag" as you say. There's some spyware that is more like a virus, if you ask me, that takes screen captures of what you're doing. Anyway, at the Law Firm I work for as a Help Desk Tech, I've ran into a few computers doing exactly what you're describing. What I did to fix them was just download and install a FREE AntiSpyware program called SpyBot Search & Destroy, which can be downlowded from http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html or just do a search for it. Just make sure to do the updates before you run the scan.

Answer 3

This question actually belongs to SECURITY Cats. There is some kind of virus in your computer. What you can do is download a free anti-virus program. Which I also use it... It's called PC-tools anti-virus it is free. You can also download PC-tools firewall which is free also. Then just scan your pc with the anti-virus program and it will delete any thing that does not belong on your PC at all. Such as TROJAN and other SPYSOFTWARES. Make sure that you do not buy anything online until you scan your pc with this program. Because if there are spywares on your pc then some one can def. see your information on their pc.

Answer 4

hi i had the same problem when i used norton antivirus and found out that norton doesnt protect you against trogen horses which is basically a differant type of virus it wound up causing my computer to crash heres a link to the google pack downloads , download spyware Dr from here and scan your computer it will remove viruses, trogens,spyware,and adware did i mention it's free

http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html?hl=en&gl=us

Answer 5

Sounds like you have some spyware on your computer.

1st I would download spybot search and destroy and scan

http://www.safer-networking.org/

Then I would download Adaware and scan

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

then to prevent you from getting infected again I would recommend spywareblaster

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Answer 6

With all the songs you loaded how much disk space do you have left? Check your hard drive. Do disk clean up and then disk defrag. If this does not improve your performance then you need to check for spy software.

Answer 7

its beacuse you have downloaded so many song u probably put them on when you are online or something like that if you are on microsoft word or an other office application then your computer slows down and if you have internet on with that then you are in trouble for this you have to increase your paging file if you want more imformation tell me!

Answer 8

If win XP, or vista, press ctl alt del and check things running in the background hogging up processor time.

Answer 9

spyware? viruses? scan your computer, or if you have one, use a recovery disc

Answer 10

get spybot update it and run it.